Lorinda J. Taylor
@termitewriter.bsky.social
Retired librarian, writes SF/F about intelligent termites, first contacts, future history. Books at http://amzn.to/u9bYWa
#SciFiSat [1/5] That night he began dreaming again. He dreamed a nightmare version of the vision of the afterlife he had experienced immediately before quantum chaos birthed him into living chaos. He saw a number of large, blue rubber balls with women sitting on them… #vss365
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#SciFiFri Even as Robbie had dreaded, Sterling had kept a journal, and probably, to judge from the index entry, she had kept it in Spainish to add another layer of privacy. But whatever language she had used, she had likely confided all her inner thoughts, her passions and fears…
October 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
#SciFiFri Even as Robbie had dreaded, Sterling had kept a journal, and probably, to judge from the index entry, she had kept it in Spainish to add another layer of privacy. But whatever language she had used, she had likely confided all her inner thoughts, her passions and fears…
#WedsStory [After his best friend Kolm MaGilligoody dies in the Darter Disaster, Robbie experiences a full-blown PTSD breakdown. ]
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#WedsStory [After his best friend Kolm MaGilligoody dies in the Darter Disaster, Robbie experiences a full-blown PTSD breakdown. ]
[1/3] “It was 800 years ago, in the 20th and the 21st centuries, and they scouted our planet over some 120 years. Kind of makes your neck prickle, what?”
Kade responded, “Especially when I saw those pictures of disk-shaped craft. …
#vss365
Kade responded, “Especially when I saw those pictures of disk-shaped craft. …
#vss365
October 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
[1/3] “It was 800 years ago, in the 20th and the 21st centuries, and they scouted our planet over some 120 years. Kind of makes your neck prickle, what?”
Kade responded, “Especially when I saw those pictures of disk-shaped craft. …
#vss365
Kade responded, “Especially when I saw those pictures of disk-shaped craft. …
#vss365
#MartialMonday [1/7] [A Seer speaks] “The ground has taken the first ford … At the second the fight is waged from a path of wood … At the third ford the Champions battle lightning … ”
“The first ford is Thel’or’ei, swallowed by the groundquake,” I said, …
“The first ford is Thel’or’ei, swallowed by the groundquake,” I said, …
October 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#MartialMonday [1/7] [A Seer speaks] “The ground has taken the first ford … At the second the fight is waged from a path of wood … At the third ford the Champions battle lightning … ”
“The first ford is Thel’or’ei, swallowed by the groundquake,” I said, …
“The first ford is Thel’or’ei, swallowed by the groundquake,” I said, …
#SciFiSat [No #androids but I have “servobots.”]
Recycling teams hissed along in their haulers, disappearing into utility tunnels beneath the buildings. Here & there servobots bustled about like industrious mechanical spiders, picking up trash and sprucing up the grounds.
#vss365
Recycling teams hissed along in their haulers, disappearing into utility tunnels beneath the buildings. Here & there servobots bustled about like industrious mechanical spiders, picking up trash and sprucing up the grounds.
#vss365
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
[1/2] “You know how on a space port, even with the dampening fields around the inhabited sectors, there is always that deep #undertone – kind of a low-frequency rumble that comes through the very ground – because of the flyer engines and the landings and takeoffs …”
#vss365
#vss365
October 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
[1/2] “You know how on a space port, even with the dampening fields around the inhabited sectors, there is always that deep #undertone – kind of a low-frequency rumble that comes through the very ground – because of the flyer engines and the landings and takeoffs …”
#vss365
#vss365
#SciFiFri [A medical drill is underway.] “You’ll have to take off your clothes, tho. That doesn’t waste any power.”
“Goddam.”
“You want us to play our part, don’t you? You want to judge how your medical staff reacts to this kind of emergency.”
“Aw, I already know what you can do.”
“Goddam.”
“You want us to play our part, don’t you? You want to judge how your medical staff reacts to this kind of emergency.”
“Aw, I already know what you can do.”
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#SciFiFri [A medical drill is underway.] “You’ll have to take off your clothes, tho. That doesn’t waste any power.”
“Goddam.”
“You want us to play our part, don’t you? You want to judge how your medical staff reacts to this kind of emergency.”
“Aw, I already know what you can do.”
“Goddam.”
“You want us to play our part, don’t you? You want to judge how your medical staff reacts to this kind of emergency.”
“Aw, I already know what you can do.”
#WedsStory [1/6] The exterior lighting was turned off early in the village to conserve power, so it was velvety dark in the clearing among the palm trees and the sky looked like a big game field on a port, with markers on it so thick the pointer would never be able to pick them all out.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#WedsStory [1/6] The exterior lighting was turned off early in the village to conserve power, so it was velvety dark in the clearing among the palm trees and the sky looked like a big game field on a port, with markers on it so thick the pointer would never be able to pick them all out.
#MartialMonday [1/4] It was unlike any reptile I had ever seen. It had long, slender, muscular legs and a lengthened, flexible neck tipped by a narrow head. Slitted yellow eyes glared at us above a snout cracked open to display thin, sharp teeth.
October 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#MartialMonday [1/4] It was unlike any reptile I had ever seen. It had long, slender, muscular legs and a lengthened, flexible neck tipped by a narrow head. Slitted yellow eyes glared at us above a snout cracked open to display thin, sharp teeth.
#MartialMonday [4/4] And Ra’fa’kat’wei cried, “Holy Nameless! Za’dut has finally done it! Tamed a reptile to pull a wheelbarrow!”
For Za’dut and Bu’gan’zei were riding in the box, which was just big enough for the two of them to jam into it.
For Za’dut and Bu’gan’zei were riding in the box, which was just big enough for the two of them to jam into it.
October 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#MartialMonday [4/4] And Ra’fa’kat’wei cried, “Holy Nameless! Za’dut has finally done it! Tamed a reptile to pull a wheelbarrow!”
For Za’dut and Bu’gan’zei were riding in the box, which was just big enough for the two of them to jam into it.
For Za’dut and Bu’gan’zei were riding in the box, which was just big enough for the two of them to jam into it.
#BraveWrite [1/4] As the seasons passed, Halrab began to get the discomfiting feeling that Gilzara was watching him – that he was being examined, assessed, measured for some impending #life-altering event.
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#BraveWrite [1/4] As the seasons passed, Halrab began to get the discomfiting feeling that Gilzara was watching him – that he was being examined, assessed, measured for some impending #life-altering event.
#SciFiSat [1/4] [In v.8 (Rare Birds) our ET Bird friends are fascinated by the fact that Earthers wear clothing and insist on watching them get dressed after Dr. Akh’chu conducts physical examinations. The culmination of an extremely funny sequence.]
October 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#SciFiSat [1/4] [In v.8 (Rare Birds) our ET Bird friends are fascinated by the fact that Earthers wear clothing and insist on watching them get dressed after Dr. Akh’chu conducts physical examinations. The culmination of an extremely funny sequence.]
#SciFiFri [Obviously, it is Za’dut speaking here.] “Good Commander, the very nature of trickery is prudence. One advertises one’s talents only in the most calculated way. I may be of further use to you in these matters, so it is best that my role in the theft remain secret.”
October 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#SciFiFri [Obviously, it is Za’dut speaking here.] “Good Commander, the very nature of trickery is prudence. One advertises one’s talents only in the most calculated way. I may be of further use to you in these matters, so it is best that my role in the theft remain secret.”
#SciFiFri A’zhu’lo muttered, “Do not go getting yourself killed, you runty little nuisance. I have just begun to enjoy the way you jab me when you stuff glon’at’zi| down my gullet.”
“None of you can even begin to imagine the depth of my talents,” responded Za’dut cheerfully. [Storm-Wing]
“None of you can even begin to imagine the depth of my talents,” responded Za’dut cheerfully. [Storm-Wing]
October 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#SciFiFri A’zhu’lo muttered, “Do not go getting yourself killed, you runty little nuisance. I have just begun to enjoy the way you jab me when you stuff glon’at’zi| down my gullet.”
“None of you can even begin to imagine the depth of my talents,” responded Za’dut cheerfully. [Storm-Wing]
“None of you can even begin to imagine the depth of my talents,” responded Za’dut cheerfully. [Storm-Wing]
#BraveWrite “I don’t think some kind of one-size-fits-all psychotropic therapy is the wisest approach in Robbie’s case,” said Dr. Souray. “Making Capt. Nikalishin feel better temporarily won’t serve. He’s got to come to grips with this trauma he’s suffered.”
October 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#BraveWrite “I don’t think some kind of one-size-fits-all psychotropic therapy is the wisest approach in Robbie’s case,” said Dr. Souray. “Making Capt. Nikalishin feel better temporarily won’t serve. He’s got to come to grips with this trauma he’s suffered.”
#BraveWrite “I went through a bout of – well, #self-examination – while I was in the Brig. And I came out of it with more to hold on to than I’ve ever had before.”
Aware he was probing sensitive matters, Malakoff didn’t continue to press his subordinate.
Aware he was probing sensitive matters, Malakoff didn’t continue to press his subordinate.
October 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#BraveWrite “I went through a bout of – well, #self-examination – while I was in the Brig. And I came out of it with more to hold on to than I’ve ever had before.”
Aware he was probing sensitive matters, Malakoff didn’t continue to press his subordinate.
Aware he was probing sensitive matters, Malakoff didn’t continue to press his subordinate.
#WedsStory [The Companions meet an ancient Seer who narrates the #legend of the Reptile Teeth.]
October 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#WedsStory [The Companions meet an ancient Seer who narrates the #legend of the Reptile Teeth.]